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  Iscariot : Iscariot47
  • liar!!! ;) : buzzbat
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  nick: buzzbat : buzzbat
  • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11795428 : buzzbat
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  draconic! iscariot, yours doesn't work. :( : draconic
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    yours either, maybe it takes time for the nick to show up? : buzzbat
    • try the account name: drac at drac.org - type it out though like an e-mail. : draconic
    • Yea, I'm not seeing you buzz... Is mine working yet? THis thing is definitely beta. : Iscariot47
• helveticabold ! : helvetica
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  dslyecxi, of course. Red Orchestra tomorrow, wooo!}r : Dslyecxi
  • dslyecxi at shackmail dot com Odd how some people can add me as "dslyecxi", others can't.. : Dslyecxi
  • Jayx77... : Jayx77
• Galadriel07... i think : Galadriel07
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  CrimsonHandHiro : CrimsonHandHiro
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    Crimson is my friend and he shot me in the face. True story! We are still friends however. : helvetica
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      i hit it... two times : CrimsonHandHiro
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        The best part about the first time is that you kept firing. What'd I do! : helvetica
        • It was dark and I'm twitchy! Also, I had to finish what I started. : CrimsonHandHiro
        • Have you called him a fag yet? : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  snowwolf RO TOMORROW BABY : snowwolf
  • try hobo99 at earthlink dot net ??? : snowwolf
• NFXFSX : NFXFSX
• umbr : Umbr
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  Not everyone works. The only ones I've gotten working are draconic, helvetica, ArtilleryMarker : cltcprd
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    your nickname isn't the same as the account name. go to settings > account tab and look for the "accou... : draconic
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      mikecyb, oddly enough :P : mikecyb
      • bah that was supposed to be to root : mikecyb
  • rdeevee : deeveee
  • _famine_ Here I come OstFront! : famine101
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  hirez : hirez
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    ok, try highrez at msn dot com : hirez
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      check your SM's. I need a port forwarded for red orchestra : themelon
      • aye aye! : hirez
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  KoolAidMan : Serpico74
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    or oganai at pacbell dot net : Serpico74
    • ...like that will reduce the amount of spam that account already gets... : Serpico74
• cltcprd : cltcprd
• kin83 : kin83
• Ok, yeah, its pretty slick, stuff seems to show up instantly, actually useful now! Awesome : snowwolf
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  Do they still allow searching by last name? If so, could everyone put in "shacknews" as last name so's w... : jhof
  • no, just email or account name, no searching :( : snowwolf
• graceofdragons lets see if this works (I still don't understand why this is so hard for them to handle) : graceofdragons
• cfilippelli : c_man_tmt
• Mine is: Nakilius : NaklsonofNakkl
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  Chellis : quietb0y
  • or maybe it's quiet1 : quietb0y
• GuidoAnchovy : guido anchovy
• fireblade : d0gbert
• shred. (with the period) : shred.
• Flying_h4x0r : Flying h4x0r
• suqur : suqur
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  armybob : armybob
  • Doesn't work, baby. : Rice-Rocketeer
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  does it not have the last name thingy? where we could all add shacknews :( : pyide
  • nope, beta'd. That feature kicked serious ass. : Turd Ferguson
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  jayares : jayares
  • ack! didn't know you had to "join" the friends beta. :( : jayares
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  why do friend requests steal focus from the game?! fucking valve wtf :( : mikecyb
  • jesus, for all the magic and great programming they have done to make steam work and keep things going, i... : askedrelic
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    Mine didn't do that. I had requests when I went to the menu, they didn't take the focus. : helvetica
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      I lost focus like 6 times during the game :( : mikecyb
      • though on the plus side I guess this means I'm popular :P : mikecyb
      • Never mind, it did grab focus. I stand corrected! : helvetica
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    what game were you playing? it didn't steal focus when i was playing cs last night : Flying h4x0r
    • during CS... it only stole focus for the first friend request though... here's what happened: playing ... : mikecyb
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  You have to create a nickname for the friend's beta, you can't just post your old steam nick. : suqur
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    yours doesn't work :( : snowwolf
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      must take some time before they go active then? : suqur
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        is that hte name you typed in or you're account name, becuase it doesn't care what name you typed in for ... : snowwolf
        • that's the nick i typed in when i joined the Friend's beta : suqur
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  Turd (hah!) Yeah there are a lot of names I can't add yet =/ : Turd Ferguson
  • Ok make that l4rk21 at hotmail dot com. And currently there is no way to change your account name =... : Turd Ferguson
• Bluntage : bluntage
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  feek ! : feek
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    no exclamation point... woops : feek
    • account name?? sillyhatsonly : feek
• Serg : sergeon
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  Dusty_Slim : Dusty_Slim
  • doesnt work : sikander
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  sexninja : sexninja!!!!
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    not found. YOU PEOPLE SUCK. ACCOUNT NAME NOT NICKNAME : draconic
    • False. Nicks work so long as you're signed up for friends beta (and entered said nick). : Dusty_Slim
    • TRY AGAIN FGT : sexninja!!!!
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  -----> : Crimsonbeak
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    Did this work? : Crimsonbeak
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      Aww no one loves me : Crimsonbeak
      • post the settings -> account name : nyranger66
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  What's the password for the CS:S server? : suqur
  • Check themelon's profile. : freshyk
• --> : sgtsanity
• Zakko : Zakko
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  nyranger66 : nyranger66
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    or nyranger67@hotmail.com : nyranger66
    • Works, yay. : Dslyecxi
  • Not working. What's your actual account name? : Dslyecxi
• TheTick (surprising I know). : TheTick
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  CookBlaze : cookblaze
  • i've typed it in 4 times and says there is no cockblaze. : graceofdragons
• SeaWolf_SSN : ^-SeaWolf-^
• none of the nicknames works for me :( : nyranger66
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  mittens ADD ME, COMRADES. : mittense
  • If that doesn't work, try trent@polycat.net. : mittense
• themelon : themelon
• It'd be really nice if we could have different groups of friends in this. Like, for instance.. I'd like t... : Dslyecxi
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  I added everyone I could. But a lot of the names didn't work. : cookblaze
  • ^^^ doesn't work : Dusty_Slim
• Ok. I added fusionrx and added a few friends. Now what? : fusionrx
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  brickmatt, bitches. : brickmatt
  • mattbrickell usual thingamadooberathotmaildotcom : brickmatt
• Durandal : Durandal07
• K1Bond007 obviously... : K1Bond007
• sikander : sikander
• ZombieNormality : Normality
• Schnapple or tomkidd at viatexas dot com : Schnapple
• Frobiwan128 : frobiwan128
• SolveChrist, or maybe w/o the caps : SolveChrist
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  Ebu : Ebu
  • ebustormwind : Ebu
• settings->account:accountname : Ebu
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  I just added everyone in this thread. Probably about half of them work. And some people have dumb names. ... : crummynz
  • I'm crummyNZ BTW. : crummynz
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  RuFfNeCk or caflynn at optonline dot net : CA Flynn
  • I added everyone I could, but couldnt find more than half of you. : CA Flynn
• --> : skruff
• Gulik........ : stgulik
• Mikkle : MikkleThePickle
• Draco ;) : Draco
• bump. : nyranger66
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  haiku at guesswherenews.com : haiku
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    this site.com HINT HINT : haiku
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      SHACKNEWS.COM faggos : haiku
      • no one's added you yet, huh. i can tell you why. it's because we all agreed we hate you : ^-SeaWolf-^
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        can't find you. : nyranger66
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          just add haiku (though I'm not sure it's the same person) : cltcprd
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            well to be honest, i didnt actually try and find him, i just wanted to make his feel better. : nyranger66
            • I added him just so I can hop on and shoot him in the face and then log off. It makes me smile. : cltcprd
        • haiku@shacknews.com works. : lonestar3
      • can't find. : K1Bond007
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        not looking : tomservo
        • bill.lamkin? Is that you or is that someone else? How do I know when I've found the real tomservo? : forgottenzero
    • It works! Hirez just added me somehow. : haiku
• Iscariot_ (with an underscore) might be work if you guys don't get plain old "Iscariot" working. : Iscariot47
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  RiceRocketeer : Rice-Rocketeer
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    Err...sorry. Rice-Rocketeer. : Rice-Rocketeer
    • you were right the first time. : nyranger66
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  also, why are we doing this? we all play on the same server.. : nyranger66
  • so I can see that you are playing RO and hate you. : cltcprd
  • when we're done we're going to count up who has the most friends and then that person wins : ^-SeaWolf-^
  • Because now I can leave you dirty messages sexy. : brickmatt
• ----> : Downforce
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  Okay, about half of these don't work. I think it's the account name... : Rice-Rocketeer
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    my account name is MikkleThePickle, my Friends name is Mikkle. Try to see which one works.... : MikkleThePickle
    • Account name verified to work! : Rice-Rocketeer
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  Melkore - same as the olde shack name : melkore
  • or protoz@yahoo.com : melkore
• POST YOUR STEAM USERNAME not your Friends username : MikkleThePickle
• paulmontesanti at hotmail dot com : Sexpansion Pack
• hellahigh420 : virus
• -> : 60days
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  ----------------> : Shadowdane
  • what are you trying to say :( : 60days
• jfingas at rogers dot com : Postal
• thrawn@ottawa.com : evil-cow
• slicksoul or slicksoul at hotmail dot com : lightly inclined
• lonestar : lonestar3
• synaptic_revolt I think : synaptic revolt
• Izakhar or izakhar@gmail.com : Izakhar
• acct name: skankcore acct email : sk8andska at yahoo dot com woot! : skankcore
• tomservo110 !!!!! : tomservo
• trptjim at yifan dot net : TrptJim
• quanta! Don't shoot me I'm a hemophiliac : quanta88
• Ratalon : Ratalon
• COM DOT HOTMAIL AT ESTOURS717 : buzzbat
• Grodesh : Bingo
• !signal : mourningstar
• project13 or the ole sruymen haytheresanatsymbolhere comcast dot net : project13
• (Exile)Chrish] : chiisu81
• bradhuizenga : osiris_brad
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  Gulik : stgulik
  • heh just realized this is the same old thread ;P yeah i'm in here already : stgulik
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  Jagermeister Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 : trOmblyj
  • FnE_Jagermeister actually : trOmblyj
• ekennedy71@sbcglobal.net wtf was I thinking? sheesh... : yosemiteclimber
• megarust32 at hotmail dot com : megarust32

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  whoa, it works amazingly well! : jojomcbobo
  • Yeah, very elegant : node
• This is massively hot.. much better looking at google results now. : stonedonkey
• OMG that is fucking awesome! : Shadowdane
• tagged for home installation. : mavmavv
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  hm, i've installed it, but i'm not sure how to use it. and i don't feel like looking through the source..... : suqur
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    Click a google image search result : node
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      hm, maybe i have to restart after installing the script. : suqur
      • ah yes, that did it. very cool. : suqur
• tagged for later, gotta try this : vaniah
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  can't look at the shacknews game screenshots...I just tried clicking on the images on the main page for t... : byorn
  • Same, was about to come and post this exact post. : mikage
  • same was about to post, you can middle click open them in a new tab, but the thing doesn't recognize it's... : graceofdragons
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    Yep, just exclude: http://*.shacknews.com/screens.x/* The screenshots don't really need lightbox anywa... : ovrlrd
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      That doesn't seem to work, the script still attempts to load the images. : sonicstorm
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        Weird it works fine for me, latest greasemonkey : ovrlrd
        • doesn't work for me either, latest greasemonkey : graceofdragons
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        The wild card in included pages pretty much overrides anything in excluded apparently. greasemonkey 0.6.4... : shotgun1
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          Ok, so it doesn't look at the page you're going to but rather the page you're currently on to exclude. So... : shotgun1
          • Ah yeah there we go, that did it. Thanks! : sonicstorm
• tagasaurus rex. : NeoMoose
• This is utterly awesome. It made Greasemonkey worth installing again. : Matt Burris
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  very annoying of it to just display "IMAGE UNAVAILABLE" when I click on a link that looks like an image b... : mr brown
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    Eh, cut them some slack. It's only v0.03. : flox
    • I demand perfection! : mr brown
• Congrats, you just converted me to Firefox. : Experiment IV
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  I don't think mine is working. Can someone post a link or page and what I'm supposed to see when I hover ... : PlanetPerfecto
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    You have to click on the link to the image. : flox
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      I must be we todd did. I installed greasemonkey, the new script, and restarted firefox and I notice no di... : PlanetPerfecto
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        Search for something on google images, then click on a thumbnail. : flox
        • fricken awesome. I went to flickr earlier and I thought it was part of the site [the interface]. SCHWE... : PlanetPerfecto
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  .... WOW WOW WOW that is cool. this finally convinced me to keep greasemonkey installed. i may as w... : crummynz
  • Oh dang... it doesn't work for images that weren't loaded when the page loaded (AJAX stuff like Google) s... : crummynz
• damn this owns for porn. : TRIPLESIXMAFIA
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  Wow, this is the greatest script I've ever seen. : Gonzo
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    :*( : ThomW
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      oh hush...surely you didn't think you were THAT good ;) : graceofdragons
      • Oh yeah ... I was serious. lol : ThomW
    • I use ShackCollapse button every day. : Gonzo
• yay inf'd! : get_navi
• Excellent script, needs some fine tuning on the behavior (maybe it should become an extension itself, so ... : Rasnowl
• one day i'll look at my tag s : p4ck3tloss
• tagged, just in case : smoove
• working shack-friendly version: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11808386 : inarius

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  Lots of older DOS games used it - I think for some memory management issues. Games like Duke3D used it I... : trOmblyj
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    ding ding ding.... cookie 4 you.... tell you the truth i have no idea what it was.... but practically e... : ssj4megaman
    • more then games used it. Imaging software, diagnostics..... anything that needed to break the 640K limit : balaams_ass
    • mmmm cookies : trOmblyj
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  I believe it allowed DOS games to byass the arcane 640KB memory limitation of DOS. And I actually have a... : EvilDolemite
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    i remember playing around with the autoexec.bat trying to squeeze every ounce of externded ram to run som... : ssj4megaman
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      And config.sys, of course. : Rich McNinch
      • ahhh how could i forget.. lets see autoexec.bat files=80 path=c:\windows smartdrv 1024 128 mouse... : ssj4megaman
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  Nesticle needed that at first didn't it? IIRC you needed that and Nesticle to play games...before they... : flagg209
  • Nesticle ran silky smooth on my 486 SX 20MHz. That guy went on to work for EA. He really knew his shit. : Schnapple
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  Dos4gw = 32-bit extender for the kernel, also allowed large segments : acidnynex
  • The original Doom used this btw. : acidnynex
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    Yes, it was a protected mode extender. The machine could run in real mode or protected mode, but while p... : Zero|DPX
    • I didn't program at all back then, the last programming I did was for an Assembly class I took a year or ... : acidnynex
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  h i m e m . s y s ' d : sharkII
  • dos=high,umb'd : stravaganza
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    OH SNAP..... i remember that now. that used to be a pain the in the ass to setup all the memory setting j... : ssj4megaman
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      EMM386.EXE'D : stravaganza
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        memmaker FTW : suqur
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          Wimp. Only pussies ran memmaker : trOmblyj
          • lol! memmaker was great! come on now! : suqur
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          QEMM bitches : zakazi
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            ^^^ pays for sex, just like he pays to make memory work for him. : loboca
            • Lots of QEMM hate from you eh? Being oh 12 at the time + first computer + no internet doesn't bode well f... : zakazi
  • MSCDEX.EXE bitches : ssj4megaman
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  Those in the know did it by hand: himem.sys and emm386 ftw : loboca
  • I messed with those settings so much. : acidnynex
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    no - we used QEMM : sting7777
    • Hmm, you payed for it, while I did it myself. : loboca
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      I could have sword though qemm worked good in windows but sucked ass in dos. i still remember windows 3.1... : ssj4megaman
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        3.11 wfw was da bomb! : loboca
        • still have my disks : ssj4megaman
      • 13 discs. I still have them in my drawer next to me. The first time I installed it was such a great exper... : freshyk
  • yeah I remember using emm386 : carazy
• Gee Whiz I dunno. : balaams_ass
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  That's not old-school. LOAD "" is old-school. : SiW73
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    SRSLY! Load "*",8,1 FTW! : FormerHPB
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      haha I was so young thats the only thing I knew how to do on our c64. : Tincan
      • Oh shi, now I remember that, old school. : loboca
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      real men use TAPE drives. These new fangled "floppy disks" just don't cut it. : steelsamurai
      • or those vhs recorder drives where you used a vhs tape to back shit up, tape drive style.. : ssj4megaman
• w/o looking at other threads real mode memory, something to the effect like that of DJGGP : yay4furryanimals
• We used to offer a service at the first computer store I worked at that we could get at least 620K free o... : Fred Garvin
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  When I was in my teens it was Phix, Klutz, and some other CGA emulator (CGASIM? SIMCGA?) that was needed ... : ThrillKill
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    When i got into computers win3.1 just came out... but we still did everything in dos. so i taught myself ... : ssj4megaman
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      When I got into computers I was using DOS 3.1 o_0 : acidnynex
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        yeah, same. PCTools vs Norton Commander was pretty much as hardcore as rivalries got. : ThrillKill
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          SCANDISK pwned everything. so did bad sectors : ssj4megaman
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            Hell naw, NDD ftw! Where you could go in and manually mark sectors bad and move data by hand ( I think th... : loboca
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              you mean when norton DIDNT suck ass, like it does now? : ssj4megaman
              • egg-xactly. : loboca
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            Was it my imagination, or did scandisk go faster when it didn't have focus? Or maybe it just counted cont... : Kerath
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              all i know ius scandisk took 1 hr on my 249meg hard drive....... WITH turbo on : ssj4megaman
              • NDD *is* Scandisk iirc.. MS bought it from Symantec, didn't they? : ThrillKill
          • I think you mean NDD... : ThrillKill
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          XTGold!!!!!!!! : loboca
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            That sounds familiar.. XTree? : ThrillKill
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              Yup yup. I could navigate directories like nobodys business. All using the keyboard. I've still got it so... : loboca
              • Heh, I remember that.. one of my friends liked it, I stuck to PCTools - I loved PCShell, preferred it ove... : ThrillKill
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  crusader.bat boot disk! : tomservo
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    I swear to christ someone needs to get that working under windows NOW. :( : node
    • If they ever got re-released to work well (I can't make it go in DOSBox), I'd buy 5 copies. :( : tomservo
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      I can run it in DOSBox fine. : EvilDolemite
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        Mine is always fucked. I've even used other dudes configs and stuff. :~( : tomservo
        • It's really slow for me, too. :( : Rice-Rocketeer
  • :'( I'm glad that I'm not the only one who misses this game. : Rice-Rocketeer
• god. Boot disks galore. What more could a kid ask for. God did I love DOS waaay more than 3.11. Then 95 c... : mavmavv
• oh snap werent .com files or .pif files executable also along with .bat and .exe's? and a .pif was the wi... : ssj4megaman
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  Wish I could remember how to load from tape on the TI-94 :| : loboca
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    ha I actually owned the external 5 1/4" drive for my TI-99 : balaams_ass
    • aw crap, yeah it was the 99/4a. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A See the pic... : loboca
• at a slightly later date.... how about when there were 2 competing 56k specs... remember k56flex and i t... : ssj4megaman
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  Punch Cards, Ahoy! ________________ / \ | O O O | | | | : ChibiJosh
  • nice : rasputinreborn
• dos4gw? Pssahhh... that's not that long ago. $3D0G : MR 9000
• DOS=HIGH HIMEM.SYS DEVICEHIGH /l:1 7280=myfile.sys SETVER.EXE FILES=60 BUFFERS=30 LASTDRIVE=Z STAC... : sistergrim
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  Took me like 3 days to get Privateer 2 to work because I did not realize that you needed to load the vesa... : sanchez
  • sim city 2000 for dos needed it. : ssj4megaman
• I hope it's a chocolate cookie ;) : SlamDunk
• I still have my Tie Fighter boot disk... It died from overuse about 10 years ago, but I don't have the... : guido anchovy
• dos 6.22 was so great, I could set up multiple boot configurations so I didn't need a special boot disk f... : alexthegreat2
• anybody who could get Origin's Voodoo memory system for Ultima 7 to work is the real winner! : sergeon
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  Anyone remember "echo off"? I remember every time I would run my Sierra games (Kings Quest, Police Quest,... : MaxPete82
  • which is funny because echo off = don't echo the batch file commands on the screen. they could have used ... : cpt_gloval
• That was so Doom could use all 4MB of my computer's memory! Yay! : carrioN luggagE
• Deskview for dos multitasking! : synack
• I learned so much about computers just by trying to figure out how to get the games to work. I'm very gra... : freshyk
• What about SIMCGA or SIMEGA? : celerity
• Always remember put the black to black or your fry your system. (Learned the hard way) Thank god for ATX. : Pettytheft
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  I get a cookie. Man I remember learning every little damn flag I could set with dos4gw. : Rotten Deadite
  • but you didnt post them..... you get a fig newton : ssj4megaman
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  Qbasic/editor FTW Nibbles.bas = more win : ssj4megaman
  • GORILLAS.BAS FTW : celerity

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  The lack of '/' search breaks the deal for me. : Kentor
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    what does that do? hey yo! bf2 arrive ok? : Gaurav Sharma
    • I just recieved around 2 days ago actually. :) Was going to Shackmessage you. : Kentor
  • the mere fact that it doesn't have '/' search makes it attractive to me : electroly
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    Whoa, really? I find CTRL+F is actually easier, I guess my hand is normally over that side of the keyboar... : crummynz
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      It's not the particular key sequence that I dislike, but rather the lack of non-modal search. : Kentor
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        god damn nerds... : PlanetPerfecto
        • I actually agree. Non-modal search is quite important to me, regardless of the keystrokes used to activa... : Zero|DPX
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    i loathe that and ' as one of the buggiest peices of shit included in FF : abrasion
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      Isn't ' the same as /? I find non-modal search far better than modal. : Kentor
      • i'd probably like it if that shit didn't pop up all the time when i didn't want it to, stealing focus fro... : electroly
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        There's a bug where on occassion in a shackpost form you type in "isn't that fucked" only the search thin... : abrasion
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          Really? In the standard post form and not alt-post? I've never ever had that happen to me (then again I... : Kentor
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            Haven't seen it for a while but it's a bastard when it happens - really ticks me the fuck off. : abrasion
            • There were bugs with it in 1.0 that were later fixed. AFAIK it should be OK in 1.5. Also, make sure i... : Zero|DPX
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    holy shit been using ff for ages and never knew that. And i'm a vim user and that never dawned on me. : Silent1
    • Not sure if you use *nix, but it works in lots of programs (less and lynx and other ones I can't think of... : aethyr
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  occasionally the shack gets all whack on me with it... whats up with that? the front page gets all jumbl... : malloc
  • memory allocation problems perhaps. lol. : Gaurav Sharma
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  Highlight search like firefox yet? : rosewood
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    nope, i'm completely indifferent to that feature though. the find feature in IE works fine. perhaps there... : Gaurav Sharma
    • When I have a lot of text, say at this site, and I do a search, I want it highlighted so I can fracking s... : rosewood
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  Nothing Firefox has been doing for what, a year already? : FiReaNG3L
  • Which means Opera has probably been doing most of it for two or three... : Arcanum
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  ...continuous jumping between IE6 and Firefox? You mean how once a month you need to use IE for Window... : Nixx2004
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    maybe he doesn't know about IE Tab for FF.... : graceofdragons
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      So he'd be jumping between FF and IE inside of FF rather than outside of it? : Ebu
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        He could just refuse to run IE at all, and let the autoupdate do the work for him. : Maddog_Delphi97
        • i was meaning in a temporal sense. installing FF for tabs + extensions, having the odd problem, getting b... : Gaurav Sharma
• If it's almost as nice as Safari, then how is it, dare you say perfect? :p : freshyk
• it's a lot better, but Firefox has a better UI, especially when you consider its search and theming abili... : Postal
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  i've used most browsers (except opera), and safari is my least favorite of all of them. firefox is ver... : itsjames
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    in page rendering, yes (although safari has been shown to render pages more quickly than FF), but in gene... : warpdude
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      I agree that "Macness" is good, but that's why people should be using Camino 1.0. : Zero|DPX
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        i think its very very dependent on individual preferences and perception. by default, with RSS feeds, ... : Gaurav Sharma
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          I don't think FF's basic handling of RSS is all that great. I use the Sage extension, which lets you che... : Zero|DPX
          • Incidentally, feedreading (like Sage and other similar ideas) was planned for inclusion in FF 1.5 but dro... : Zero|DPX
        • I'd rather just use netnewswire. : vigilante
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        I would use Camino if it would launch with a group of tabs like Firefox. Unless there is a way to make it... : Mansmells
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          You can launch a group of tabs very easily. Just set up the tabs you want, go to the Bookmarks menu, sel... : Thresher
          • but i want it to launch with a group of tabs like firefox does. like when you set the homepage in Firefox... : Mansmells
    • Safari does have the ability to add plugins, just nobody is making them and in general it's not as desire... : ovrlrd
  • same here, safari isn't even on my funbar anymore. then again I don't use macs that often. : tomatoactivator
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    Safari is my least favorite to use. IE is absolutely my least favorite to write code for, though. Ha... : filtersweep
    • I wish they (congress or whoever has more power) would pass a law saying that ALL browsers (IE, Firefox, ... : Maddog_Delphi97
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    Agreed. Safari renders fewer pages correctly than FF, in my experience. : rasputinreborn
    • The KHTML core and the Gecko core have different sets of rendering issues. There are certainly areas whe... : Zero|DPX
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  Yeah but how safe is it? : Rotten Deadite
  • Well, I just managed to steal your credit card number, and you're just talking about it. That should give... : ChibiJosh
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  Firefox for life now. I used to be hardcore IE until someone turned me on to Firefox around 0.5. : Vic Viper
  • If (unforseeable) IE surpasses FireFox again or something else comes up, I'll change but it's gotta be re... : graceofdragons
• I need my extensions damnit. I can't live without them!! : mikecyb
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  i'm not sure why but the windows validation isn't working for me <whistles> : rigg5kthx
  • omg you're so cool cause u pirate M$ software : nadasurf2
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    Yeah, same boat. Oh, well. : dmason
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      an oem windows xp home costs around fifty bucks off ebay. if you're using it and can afford it (and you c... : Gaurav Sharma
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        I have one. I purchased it. Mine never passes validation, though. =\ Every time I have to reinstall I cal... : dmason
        • You might have bought a knock off. I've seen soem pretty convincing ones in my day, right down to the hol... : Fred Garvin
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        Buying an OEM license off ebay is just as wrong in MS's eyes as pirating it. Both are invalid licenses. ... : rosewood
        • ms do not prohibit it being used for system builds or being bundled with non-peripheral hardware, ebay or... : Gaurav Sharma
  • *slowly emerges from the dark in an alley* "you know if you pirated windows, you could pirate ie7 as w... : klearlyunseen
• so far I like it, took a few minutes to get my favorites link folder into the toolbars but now its awesom... : Galadriel07
• FIRE FOX MOTHER FUCKER. : spdon
• Does setAttribute finally work? :/ : filtersweep
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  Also, can you run IE7 and IE6 concurrently? Or does 7 overwrite 6? : filtersweep
  • 7 takes over 6. : NFXFSX
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    seems to overwrite (iexplore launches IE7 now), but not entirely sure. : Gaurav Sharma
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      From what I hear, you can't uninstall 7 and then reinstall 6 either. Or something like that. Confirm ... : Maddog_Delphi97
      • sounds right - can't find any way of uninstalling IE7 here. not that I'd want to i think : Gaurav Sharma
  • I make websites for a living, but I can't install IE 7 if it means I can't use IE6. MS should let you ... : Kenshin_
• hmmm, wont install on my virtual machine. : bolus
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  Given how much ass FF 1.5 is blowing, I can't wait for IE7 to get out of beta : Gauss
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    Please provide details on ass blowing : Zero|DPX
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      http://www.codinghorror.com/blog : MikkleThePickle
      • Zero has already posted a fix for this very problem : johnny skidmarks
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        http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11716648 TLDR: Please show me an actual bug, not a large number in T... : Zero|DPX
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          I don't know if I would call 4 million page faults and 900MB for a single tab meaningless... but I do see : MikkleThePickle
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            No, the majority of people will not notice or care unless something actually goes _wrong_, i.e. the brows... : Zero|DPX
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              I easily noticed and cared when my system got slower and slower the longer Firefox ran. I regularly have ... : kingdok
              • lol ... sounds like azureus... what a memory hog... it eats and eats ... eventually everything will be sw... : BigT
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    Interesting how your last Firefox sux post didn't have any reasoning behind it either. Nor replies. http: : rasputinreborn
    • (replies from you, that is.) : rasputinreborn
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  i'll give this i a chance if i can get the fonts to look identical to firefox's. is there a way to make t... : cpt_gloval
  • I have uninstalled IE7. Under control panel add/remove programs. Had not problem doing this. It went r... : runnerct
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  I'm not sure why, but the shack looked like a total clusterfuck. YMMV. : capt tripps
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    I'M NOT SURE WHY BUT THIS WINE TASTES MUCH BETTER WHEN I'M RUNNING LUNIX! : Pink0r
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      ANOTHER FINE PINK0R POST. ENJOY THIS SHACK, YOU DON'T GET USUALLY GET CONTENT LIKE THIS FOR FREE. : rasputinreborn
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        LOL, I'm remembering our discussion last night and agreeing : Zero|DPX
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          Was this before or after you touched him in his naughty bits? : Pink0r
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            What did gegtik do to you that you want to ape him so badly, and why can't you at least be amusing like h... : rasputinreborn
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              I'm trying but I just don't have the comedy touch that he has. I just know that if I keep trying one ... : Pink0r
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                Obviously. : rasputinreborn
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                  please it's not fair to hold people up to my stellar standard of posting : gegtik
                  • Please, children. We love you both equally. : Rotten Deadite
• NO. NO. you will NOT hype up IE. I just SWITCHED to Firefox due to the past YEAR of shackhype...you w... : deathofrats
• I welcome updating Internet Explorer, because 6 IMHO was a total failure. However why you'd choose it ... : PlanetPerfecto
• Install this beta over your stable IE6 install, ok guys!? Also its almost as nice as Safari! <recor : rasputinreborn
• I use IE7 as my primary browser at work and imho it's got a long way to go before getting to the level of... : MikkleThePickle
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  Okay, where did my Favourites list go? Please tell me I don't have to use some lame ass sidebar. : Fred Garvin
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    Okay, not liking it so far. Is there a way to go back to 6? : Fred Garvin
    • No, afaik. Sharmowned. : rasputinreborn
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  Anyone else not able to read the text on the tabs because MS thought super light blue was a great color t... : Fred Garvin
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    Also, the underline doesn't highlight the post you are on until you click. : Fred Garvin
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      Last point for the night. Why the hell doesn't IE save the little site icons? This happened with 6 as wel... : Fred Garvin
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        yea i find the icons not being in the bookmarks to be annoying also, its harder to find the bookmark im l... : pokerman33
        • and as for the bookmark side bar, u can just switch on classic menu to get the top favorites bar. : pokerman33